Dick Covey (MSAAE '69), a former NASA astronaut and past CEO of United Space Alliance, will speak as a part of the Visiting Scholars Series.

Audrey Powers (BSAAE '99) is the company's vice president of mission & flight operations.

Sirisha Bandla (BSAAE ’11) was honored at the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association dinner and awards presentation in September.

Beth Moses (BSAAE, MSAAE) flew to suborbital space on Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity for the second time July 11.

With her suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity on July 11, Sirisha Bandla (BSAAE '11) joined an exclusive club. She's the 17th AAE alumni in the Cradle.

Beth Moses and Sirisha Bandla will fly July 11, at the earliest, the company announced. It'll be Moses' second flight to space and Bandla's first, launching her into Purdue's "Cradle" as a commercial astronaut.

Yen (Yu) Matsutomi and Loral O'Hara worked alongside each other at Zucrow Labs during grad school in AAE, but a friendship budded beyond research.

“This is just an incredible honor,” Rhonda Walthall said. “I would have never dreamed that I would ever receive this award, this recognition from Purdue.”

“It is great honor to be recognized among peers that have accomplished great things in their careers after Purdue,” Stevan Slijepcevic said.

“I have always been proud to be a Boilermaker alumnus, and it is truly an honor to be recognized by my AAE faculty colleagues as having contributed something to our field and our profession,” David Schmidt said.